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US History Timeline 1800-1876

  • The US capital moved from Philadelphia to Washington DC

  • Census in America

  • Thomas Jefferson was elected third president

  • The Louisiana purchase

  • Start of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • Jefferson's second Inauguration

  • James Madison was elected as the fourth president

  • War of 1812

  • Madisons second inauguration

  • The treaty of Ghent

  • James Monroe was elected as the fifth President

  • Spain agrees to cede Flordia to the US

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe's second inauguration

  • Continental congress adopts the articles of confederation

  • John Quincy Adams is elected as the sixth President

  • US constitution goes into effect

  • Andrew Jackson was elected as the seventh President

  • President Jackson signs to Indian removal act

  • Jackson's second inauguration

  • Texas declares their independence from Mexico

  • The Alamo

  • Martin Van Buren is Inaugurated as the eighth President

  • William Henry Harrison was Inaugurated as the ninth President

  • William Dies a month lated and is succeeded by his vice president John Tyler

  • James Polk is Inaugurated as the eleventh President

  • The start of the Mexican War

  • Abraham Lincoln was elected president

  • Te civil war between the North and the South

  • The Battle of Gettysburg is fought

  • The 15th Amendament

  • The great Chicago fire

  • The panic of 1873 a financial crisis that caused an economic depression

  • The Civil Rights Act

  • Vice President Wilson dies

  • Resumption Act

  • Colorado becomes the 38th State

  • Battle of Little Bighorn